What I ate today.

That looks lovely Patrick. 

That looks delicious Patrick, did you have it in a restaurant or was it homemade?

Lee 2 x

That looks delicious Patrick. I really like potato dumplings too. Craig is going to Germany on Friday for 5 days. Lucky him !! Hopefully he will bring back some goodies x

What are you all eating over Christmas, I still need ideas..

We are having fairly traditional food as Craig is from Scotland. Turkey, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, roast carrots and Parsnips, then some sausages wrapped with bacon. 

What do you normally have? Do you have German food or English ones? 

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We are also having pretty traditional food, but no turkey.  Roast beef, roast lamb and chicken.  One year Jon and I did T-Bone steaks on the BBQ on Christmas day.  This was one of the best Christmases ever.  Took a walk in the afternoon, had the woods to ourselves and saw a Muntjac deer.  Might do that next year again.

Lee 2 x

I just found out we are having goose on Christmas day. Here, the presents are traditionally exchanged on Christmas Eve so people have a 'posh' meal then too. I think we could go for venison goulash with me trying my hand at the sauce. Should be fun.

We have a very traditional Christmas dinner, if I didn’t cook a turkey I think I would find myself divorced!! We will also have gammon, roast potatoes, parsnips, sprouts and carrots. Hubby also likes red cabbage. We will have pigs in blankets and cranberry sauce! I don’t know where we find the room, but we also have Christmas pudding, hubby likes custard with his, I have some baileys cream for mine. The only thing that varies is the starter. Camembert with home made bread this year. The diet can start next year. 

Hi Patrick, starter of melon balls, cheese and prawns then for us it's definitely a turkey, ham, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, carrots and parsnips, peas, swede (over here in Northern Ireland we call them turnips, what you would call turnips just aren't sold here), sprouts in white sauce with crispy bacon pieces that were covering the turkey breast for a while, gravy, cocktail sausages (no blankets) cranberry sauce. A little break and then Mrs Tvman's Christmas pudding and pavlova, my youngest son's trifle (a little of each) and cream then a cheeseboard. I'll allow myself a glass of white and a glass of red then no more until next Christmas (one of my meds side effect is cirrhosis.)

When I first started going out with Mrs Tvman her family were farmers and they used to raise around 160 turkeys from 2 days old until the table. Part of the journey was plucking them at the end and after the first 30 turkeys plucked I got the hang of it! Mrs Tvman never laid a finger on a turkey, neither did her sister.

Tvman x

Sounds very luxuriant tvman. Sprouts will definitely fit in somewhere as we still have a bucketful in the garden